Cauldrons. They’re useless. They can be used as decoration, but nothing else. I think that you should be able to make soup with them. Now, all you people, I KNOW THAT THIS HAS BEEN SUGGESTED BEFORE! But it hasn’t been suggested in quite a while, and most cauldron-soup suggestions just say that you dump a lot of things in it and you get soup. I plan to get into depth with this post.
First, I believe that no one wants to see a list of items about what can be added into soup. So, basically all food can be put in. Anyways, when you have a cauldron, you drop the items in.
For example, you throw in a piece of chicken, the water inside will turn brown and become chicken soup. You can fill three bowls with this, like with bottles. Each bowl of soup will fill 1.5 hunger points, meaning half of what the chicken would give (3).
Then, if you dump in some PORKCHOPS, you will get porky chicken soup. Porkchops heal 4 points, 4+3=7, so the soup will give half of 7, which is 3.5 points.
After that, then you could pop in an apple! That would turn it into porky chicken soup with apple. Apples grant you 2 hunger, so 7+2/2 = 4.5! Each bowl will now give you a fabulous 4.5 hunger points! That isn’t a lot, but you can get other combinations:
Beefy Fish Soup with Pork (5.5)
Chickeny Bread Soup with Cookies (3.5)
Cakey Apple Soup with Rotten Flesh (5)
Etcetcetcetcetc...
With cake and pork, you can achieve very high rates. In addition to that, you can also spice them. If you put in any kind of seed or tall grass, the Soup will become Stew, and 0.5 hunger points will be added to each bowl. So a Cakey Pork Stew with Beef will grant you an awesome spiffing 7.5 hunger points! Also, you can apply potions to the broth. The potion effect will be halved; for instant potions half the effect, and for duration potions half the time, and it won’t show - no one will know! So your Cakey Pork Stew with Beef will either add an additional 3 full health points, or it might poison you to half a heart. Risky…
So far so good? But there is a major mechanic left out. Instead of being instantly created, Soup or Stew will take a quarter of a day to cook. You have to light the filled cauldron on fire, and it will start to cook. The fire will eventually go out, and that is when you can get the amazing mix! Unfortunately, if you pick it up before it is cooked or if you put too much ingredients, the bowl will show up as “spoiled soup”. It will poison you.
And me as well. Cauldrons are potion materials, why would you make soup in them?
Also, they can store water in the Nether, and they fill with water on occasion in the rain. Seems to have uses to me, and as just said, any further uses should be for potions, as they were released with potions and used to be/still are potion items.
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[quote=Badgerz]You have to keep in mind that people are stupid.
[quote=Catelite]Just because you don't understand how something works, doesn't make it broken or pointless. >_<
Yeah, I think cauldrons should be used to combine potions. For example, if you pour in a potion of swiftness and a potion of strength into a cauldron you would get 2 doses of potion of speed + strength with some sort of drawback, either a lowered duration or an additional negative effect, like hunger.
I don't really like the idea of soup being made in cauldrons.
Bump again? I think that cauldrons should have a unique use instead of just being a brewing stand or enhancing potions. Why not soup? Anyways, I just sort of think of cauldrons as large iron buckets. I don't care what they're called.
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I haven't even bought MineCraft, I don't have the money...
First, I believe that no one wants to see a list of items about what can be added into soup. So, basically all food can be put in. Anyways, when you have a cauldron, you drop the items in.
For example, you throw in a piece of chicken, the water inside will turn brown and become chicken soup. You can fill three bowls with this, like with bottles. Each bowl of soup will fill 1.5 hunger points, meaning half of what the chicken would give (3).
Then, if you dump in some PORKCHOPS, you will get porky chicken soup. Porkchops heal 4 points, 4+3=7, so the soup will give half of 7, which is 3.5 points.
After that, then you could pop in an apple! That would turn it into porky chicken soup with apple. Apples grant you 2 hunger, so 7+2/2 = 4.5! Each bowl will now give you a fabulous 4.5 hunger points! That isn’t a lot, but you can get other combinations:
Beefy Fish Soup with Pork (5.5)
Chickeny Bread Soup with Cookies (3.5)
Cakey Apple Soup with Rotten Flesh (5)
Etcetcetcetcetc...
With cake and pork, you can achieve very high rates. In addition to that, you can also spice them. If you put in any kind of seed or tall grass, the Soup will become Stew, and 0.5 hunger points will be added to each bowl. So a Cakey Pork Stew with Beef will grant you an awesome spiffing 7.5 hunger points! Also, you can apply potions to the broth. The potion effect will be halved; for instant potions half the effect, and for duration potions half the time, and it won’t show - no one will know! So your Cakey Pork Stew with Beef will either add an additional 3 full health points, or it might poison you to half a heart. Risky…
So far so good? But there is a major mechanic left out. Instead of being instantly created, Soup or Stew will take a quarter of a day to cook. You have to light the filled cauldron on fire, and it will start to cook. The fire will eventually go out, and that is when you can get the amazing mix! Unfortunately, if you pick it up before it is cooked or if you put too much ingredients, the bowl will show up as “spoiled soup”. It will poison you.
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And me as well. Cauldrons are potion materials, why would you make soup in them?
Also, they can store water in the Nether, and they fill with water on occasion in the rain. Seems to have uses to me, and as just said, any further uses should be for potions, as they were released with potions and used to be/still are potion items.
[quote=Badgerz]You have to keep in mind that people are stupid.
[quote=Catelite]Just because you don't understand how something works, doesn't make it broken or pointless. >_<
I don't really like the idea of soup being made in cauldrons.